Posts by Mikel

Intel and memory standards

I still haven't forgiven them for that Rambus RIMM nonsense. Not sure I ever will.

When we are living there

Digging down to the rich biome beneath the desert will be required for a number of human habitation reasons. We will find life. Unfortunately by then it will be difficult to tell if we brought it with us.

Getting things under control

It takes a while for the fixes to show. I think they'll be OK.

In completely unrelated news...

If you got suckered into W10 more than 10 days ago, you can forget about rolling back. They got you, they're keeping you.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3104927/microsoft-windows/microsoft-reduces-windows-10-roll-back-grace-period.html

At the large end of the scale

Space station

Whatever this game is

It has been a help getting the kids outside for summer play.

Almost seven years

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-iphone-funeral-2010-9

Since the funeral for iPhone, it will be seven years in a few days.

Intel and Linux

Linux owns HPC, and they use a lot of chips. It must drive the Intel folks crazy to know they can't engineer a reason to require Windows on there. Do the systems come with the TPM chip that only operates with Microsoft's encryption key? Of course they do. That must be the only bone they can throw to Redmond from there.

For all the gloom

The stock had a nice bump, suggesting performance was better than expected. So at least the corporate privacy shield is still working, or leaks would have evened out the bump. I like to see the strong momentum through the emotional $100/share barrier.

I'm looking forward to further strong performance in the next two quarters. Back to school is a great time for them on the PC, and of course going into the holidays with a new model iPhone is always a slam dunk. With W10 killing the Wintel PC market, Apple PC should do really well even with Chromebooks taking an ever larger share of Education. Something creative with iPad would be bonus. Of course a totally new product category from Apple is overdue, and their gnomes have been slaving away on some things, but it's impossible to tell when those will hatch. They're ready when they're ready.

Not trustworthy

The GWX app already does an evaluation of your app and driver readiness. It just always says "full speed ahead!" even if the machine won't boot afterwards, doesn't work with some of your devices, or pesky apps have to be deleted.

Why would this tool work any different? They either know how to determine if the PC can run their OS or they don't - and obviously the answer is the latter. And/or they lie, which is no better.

Like everything else

Skype died the day they bought it.

Somehow

The Microsoft implementation will work in a few hundred remote root vulnerabilities. Because they have no clue.

The power myth

For over a decade MSFT had lateral motion, but the forecast was always "to the moon!" based on their tyrant status. Your money had better returns stuffed in a mattress. It will be interesting to see if they can do that again now that their dominance of technology is broken. I think not.

We already covered this

SpaceX can land the boosters all on the same pad. Stacked vertically. Like Robin Hood.

Uh oh.

I've got a bad feeling about this. It's as if the ghosts of Sun and Novell were rattling their chains and muttering a warning too softly to hear.

It was never your device

It's their device. They use it to get you to do what they want you to do. Its purpose is not to serve you.

He is the 506th person to die in a police shooting this year in the Land of the FreeTM

30,000 Americans have been killed this year in traffic accidents, and 100,000 by medical error. Somehow nobody is sharpening the pitchforks and lighting the torches over that.

You have to look at the specifics in each incident, and clusters of incidents to see if there is wrongdoing on the part of the individuals and institutions involved. Policing can be nasty and dangerous work. They tend not to interact much with the top 99% of orderly and civilized people, and the bottom 1% can be random, unpredictable and dangerous.

I haven't looked at this one. No doubt someone will tell me he was on his way to choir practice from volunteering at a hospice.

An excess of passion is often self destructive. It seemed to drive the creativity and work that made so much great stuff while he was able, but it was too much. He gave us a lot. Thanks, Ian.

The plan

The plan is never to coax less money from the same customer. Never.

As for the license, if you are doing something useful with Microsoft software you are almost certainly in violation of some clause of the license agreement. And likely not using it as intended as well.

"Final push"

Not even close to the end here guys. As I have been telling you since this started, this is do or die time for Microsoft. Android has been taking over. Microsoft need to get a critical mass of people on to Windows 10 - and quick - or it's all over for them.

So no, this does not end in July. We have not seen the worst of it. Not even close.

Margin is an odd measure

How is this margin calculated? Do they know how much the supplier paid?

It was a sad day when Intel bought McAfee

It was solid evidence the MBAs had gone soft in the head. If your endpoints and network are running a secure OS and apps then you don't need the product. And if they're not, nothing will save them so the product is worthless.

In the meantime having a major asset that relies on the prominence of the fading Windows platform and propping it up at All cost is a conflict of interest for a chip maker that helped kill their mobile opportunities.

Of course when the founder himself crowed relief that they were relieving him of the burden of sharing his good name with that garbage - that might have been a clue.

Good to see them getting shut of it.

Declare victory now

They're going to declare victory and rejoice in their triumph over whatever challenges they have overcome, by defining the goal as what happened. Might as well do it now, get it over with and move on before they burn another $10B on this pyre.

16 bits? Nicely done!

I would have gone for 8. Lazy me.

Been meaning to get me a few.

Want to do a few maker projects. Garden control with automatic sensor driven watering, misting, and Internet monitoring via periodic picture email and on-demand live streaming for example. Maybe archiving periodic pics so I can make an annual time lapse movie.

They seem to have cured the stock-out problems with this model.

As for the gnarly circuit board, a broad variety of cases are available.

Cherry picking

No doubt their billions of data points told them which notebook, and specifically what to test.

Of course since I don't have anything left that could run Windows, nor especially Windows 10, and If I had I wouldn't, we don't even get anywhere near the browser selection question. But in the bizarre alternate reality where that might be a choice, "not theirs".

Sweating a little

Now that China topped the list with homegrown chips.

Out of gas

When the satellite operators are being charged extra not seeing their reusable rocket rebate, this sort of thing may become less common. Some won't care. They will load the thing to the gunnels and then some to keep their bird aloft as long as possible and with as much capability as possible.

A long as we give them money

They will continue to use it to fight for their interests and against ours.

So stop giving them your money. You are not stupid.

(June) (GWX)